LA GRANGE, N.C. — Family of a missing teenager who vanished over one decade ago in La Grange, North Carolina, just east of Goldsboro, still need answers.

Timeka Pridgen, known as ‘Meka’ by friends and family, was 16-years-old when she was last seen at her Lenoir County home on May 12, 2001.

Pridgen’s mother, Cosandra Best, told journalist the last time she saw her daughter was at approximately 10PM on the night of May 12, 2001 in their living room on South Street in La Grange. She (Best) had come up and decided to relax and wait for her boyfriend, then 31-year-old Eric Moore. Instead she ended up falling asleep and didn’t wake up until midnight. By then, her boyfriend still didn’t show up and her daughter was gone.

“I started looking around to see if anything was missing, and I saw that the shoes that she was wearing was still there (and) her purse. That’s when the panic set in,” Best would later tell journalist.

After her daughter disappeared, Best learned from police that her boyfriend, Moore, had a dark past which included convictions for a sex crime, kidnapping, assault and theft. However, there is no proof that Best’s former boyfriend had anything to do with Pridgen’s disappearance.

Eric E Mercer-Moore

Wounds and closure will never go away for the family of Pridgen, who still reaches out over a decade after her disappearance. Torin Fisher, Pridgen’s sister, reached out to media by writing on CNN iReport, in February, 2011, almost 10 years after the teen went missing. The report said;

Torin Fisher from Kinston North Carolina. It’s been nearly 10 years since my sister Timeka Pridgen has went missing & its been difficult to deal with at times knowing the case is still open. The last time i saw my sister i was 12, we visited our father who was recovering from a heart attack, now im 23.

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It was May 12th of 2001 when 16 year old Timeka Pridgen of La Grange went missing. She has never been heard from or seen again.Her mother, Cosandra Best, says she was taking a nap, waiting for her boyfriend, a relationship she was about to end…the night her daughter disappeared. She says her daughter brought her the phone and said he would be there in five minutes. That’s when Cosandra says she drifted back to sleep. “The next thing I heard was a door closing and a car driving off.”When Cosandra woke up her daughter was nowhere to be found. “She, um left her shoes, her purse and it had money in her purse. This evening it rained and was cool and I knew she would not have walked out without her shoes on.”Cosandra says Timeka had no reason to runaway. She describes her as a typical teen who had a love for drawing and her friends…friends who didn’t know where she was. Neither did Cosandra’s soon to be ex-boyfriend, who claims he was never there that night. Cosandra says, “My first gut instinct was he definitely knew what happened.”But Cosandra says neither he, or anyone else, would be an immediate focus for police. Cosandra believes the investigation into her daughter’s disappearance was hindered because of the outcome of a missing persons case weeks earlier, involving a classmate of Timeka’s. “And lots and lots of resources were poured into that and it turned out to be a hoax.”Cosandra says it wasn’t until a year later, at the insistence of an advocate on her behalf, that an SBI agent was assigned to the case.Nine years later Cosandra says she would like to talk to her former boyfriend again about her daughter’s disappearance. He no longer lives in La Grange, but she knows how to get ahold of him. He’s in a North Carolina prison.Eric Mercer Moore was convicted in 2006 on attempted second degree sexual offense. He’s serving twelve years behind bars. State records show years before Timeka went missing…he was convicted of second degree sex offense and kidnapping, served time and was released.WITN called Eastern Correctional where Moore is currently behind bars, and requested an interview. Officials at the prison told us his answer was, “Absolutely not.”Just like Timeka’s disappearance, whether Moore has any information that could help in this case will remain a mystery.Cosandra continues to hold out hope that her daughter is still alive. As she reminisces over those drawings of hers, she hopes that one day, Timeka just might be able to finish the one she was working on when she vanished. “Everyday I miss her and I want so badly to know where she is and what happened.”

All Im Asking Mrs. Nancy Is For Help & For anyone to come forward who may have seen her.

Thank You

DESCRIPTION: At the time Tameka Pridgen went missing, she had braces, light brown highlights and both her ears were double pierced.

ALLEGHENY, PITTSBURG, PA — FBI believe a missing Brookline resident who vanished after supposedly leaving for a trip to Florida with her boyfriend two years ago, may still be alive and may have been forced into a human sex trafficking ring.

Alivia Kail who is also known by family and friends as ‘Liv’, was 19-years-old when she went missing on March 4, 2011. According to her brother, Lance Kail, the young woman was at home packing for a trip to Florida that she and her boyfriend, Alexander Lorenzi, planned. The following day on March 5th, 2011 Alivia’s mother, Christine DiDiano, called Pittsburgh Police to report her daughter missing after not being able to reach her, which was unusual. PPD told DiDiano that because Kail is an adult, she would have to wait 24-48 hours before a missing persons report can be filed.

Several days later locals witnessed Lorenzi back in Pittsburgh, without Kail. When questioned about her whereabouts, he gives conflicting stories telling Kail’s family that she returned to Pittsburgh, but when Lance Kail, Alivia’s brother, went to speak with Lorenzi to find out where his sister was, his story begins to change and he tells Lance that she decided to stay in Florida. Lance felt something was also and got the Allegheny County Police to file a missing persons report.

When family and police pressed Lorenzi for more information, he cowered away, disconnected his phone line and lawyered up. A search warrant for Lorenzi’s home in Esplen, PA, was issued but nothing related to the disappearance of Kail was discovered. However, they did find drugs and a .22 Ruger that was in fact stolen. He was arrested and charged with receiving stolen property, possession of marijuana with the intent to deliver, and cocaine possession.

Now in a startling new update, FBI agents in Pennsylvania, who became involved in the missing woman’s case, now believe she is alive and is being exploited/forced into a human sex-trafficking ring.

On Tuesday when the news broke out Kail’s mother, Christine DiDiano, told Channel 11’s Alan Jennings that she now has new hope that her daughter may be alive.

“It’s been long, almost two years, but I’m just so hopeful that we could get Alivia back. It doesn’t matter how, I just want her to come back,” Kail’s mother, Christine Kail, said. “I will never give up. So many people who love her just want her back.”

Resolution Hope, a Pittsburgh-based group who are dedicated to finding victims enslaved and trafficked, have teamed up with FBI to discuss the new discovery.

Kail changed her hairstyle and color frequently — when she went missing she had lighter colored hair

Liv Kail’s tattoo is similar to this photo of a blue lily

Missing: Alivia Christine Kail is a Facebook page related to the missing woman’s disappearance. Also, a website PA Liv Safe shows a timeline on this case and a picture of the missing woman’s tattoo and Lorenzi.

FBI agents say Pittsburgh, like many cities in the country and throughout the world, has a sex trafficking problem that needs to be addressed by law enforcement.

Polaris Project is a very informative website which is dedicated to helping victims of human trafficking and alerting the public on the crime.

Investigators believe one man is the common link in two missing-girl cases.

11-month-old Estella Lovemore went missing this past Sunday, and 2-year-old Caroline Oddo has been missing since November, 2012.

Luis Palacio is officially considered a suspect in one of the cases and a person of interest in the other. Palacio is the biological father of Oddo. He’s also the boyfriend of Lovemore’s mother, Danielle Lovemore.

The Tucson Police Department issued a felony arrest warrant in Palacio’s name accusing him of custodial interference in Oddo’s case. Meanwhile, Marana police consider Palacio a person of interest in the Lovemore disappearance.

Estella went missing Sunday when her mother reportedly took her from a birthday party at Gymnastics World in Marana. Richter Lewis, Estella’s father, said Child Protective Services told him that Estella had been abducted.

“They said my daughter had been abducted by Danielle, and that’s pretty much all I heard about it from them,” Lewis said.

“I didn’t even have a Facebook account until last night, and I’m doing this just to find Ella. My main concern is trying to find my daughter and get her back home.”

Oddo’s mother, Anna Oddo, described Palacio as a violent man who hurt her and embarrassed her on several occasions.

She said she never witnessed Palacio hurting their daughter, but feels he is capable of doing so based on what he’s done to her.

Police say Estella Lovemore has already suffered a broken elbow and multiple bumps and bruises. Police did not determine how she was injured, but CPS removed her from her home.

Police say her mother’s reported abduction of her Sunday only placed her in harm’s way.

Marana Police Sgt. Jose Alvarez says, “Right now we don’t know where she’s at and we’re concerned for her safety. So until we find out further and know that she’s safe, we’re going to call her a missing and endangered person to give her heightened awareness.”

It is not entirely clear that Palacio and Lovemore are together, but police saw the couple together in November when Estella suffered her broken elbow, and Marana police say Lovemore is five months pregnant with Palacio’s child.

A reward up to $1,000 will go to the person whose tip leads to an arrest in each unsolved case.

If you have any information regarding this case please contact: Arizona CrimeStoppers 520-882-7463 (88-CRIME) (If you have information on a possible sighting, contact your local authorities asap.)

Photo of Danielle Lovemore shows what she would look like with dark hair and sunglasses. This picture was taken from her Facebook page — Many of her public photos are from 2009 however, there is a couple of photos which were posted several months ago. Her profile is for the most part, private. However, she listed herself as a “Babysitter for Jennifer” and has a picture of two young girls as her cover-photo. She also lists under ‘places lived’ both Tuscon, Arizona and Oracle, AZ.

Family and friends are mourning the death of their loved one after divers pull body from a frozen lake not too far from where the woman went missing.

Although the remains have yet to be identified, many believe it’s missing bartender, Sarah Majoras, 39, who vanished one week ago after leaving John and Peters bar, where she worked as a bartender.

The discovery came after a shoe believed to have belonged to Majoras was discovered in the lake. According to reports, authorities said they were investigating reports Majoras had been approached by an unidentified man the night she disappeared. However, police are still investigating and haven’t yet found any evidence to point to foul-play.

In a strange twist, Majoras was found at the same area where her former friend, David Anderson from Ottsville was found in 2000. Anderson was in a band and was reported to have been seen walking in the same area on his way to Majoras’s boyfriend when he fell into the water and drowned.

Majoras disappeared shortly after leaving John and Peters bar in New Hope, Pennsylvania. Surveillance video spotted the woman walking alone on New Hope Lambertville bridge at approximately 2AM Saturday morning, taking a left turn onto Lambert Road.

“We’ve all been searching for Sarah and we were hoping that she would be coming home safe. We even joked that when we find her she needs to buy us a couple of beers or something, you know,” George Altonen, a friend of Majoras who was also employeed at John and Peters bar said when speaking to NJ reporters.

Altonen went on to say: “Sarah was just a beautiful and wonderful person and she’s going to be loved and missed for the rest of my life,” said Altonen. “All our hearts go out to Sarah, Sarah’s family and her boyfriend Adam. She was a very funny woman. She was witty, she was very smart, a very super smart woman, you know…she always had a smile on her face.”

A Lambertville, New Jersey resident has been missing for five days now.

According to friends and family, Sarah Majoras, 39, was at John in Peters bar in New Hope, PA, her play of employment, on Friday night going into the early morning hours of Saturday, January 26, 2013. At approximately 2AM, Majoras was seen crossing the New Hope Lambertville bridge, making a left turn onto Lambert Lane.

She hasn’t been seen or heard from since.

Investigators have released still-shots photos from surveillance, showing Majoras walking alone the night she disappeared. They hope releasing the photos will generate new tips that will help them solve this mystery.

10AM this morning search crews and volunteers met up at 333 Rago Arts North Main Street in Lambertville, NJ and searched in muddy, chilly conditions for hours but the missing woman’s whereabouts remain unknown.

Loved ones created a Facebook page Find Sarah Majoras which has already gained over 11, 5000 ‘likes’. One of the administrators for the Find Sarah Majoras Facebook page debunked some rumors going around. He said:

“I would like to post FACTS here that have been given by the police and Mayor only. Please no speculation or hearsay. To dispel any myths that I’ve heard already. The dogs did not pick up a scent, there were no texts or calls from her phone. All your help is greatly need, she is a true friend to all of us and we want to find her asap.”

Anyone with any information concerning the whereabouts of Sarah Majoras is asked to please contact: Lambertville Police Department at 609-397-3132.

(AP) SAN FRANCISCO – Police searched a home in San Francisco on Tuesday in connection with the high-profile disappearance of a 10-year-old boy nearly 30 years ago.

San Francisco police said in a statement that the examination of the backyard and garage of the house near the city’s Haight-Ashbury district was a “follow up to the cold case investigation” into Kevin Collins’ disappearance. They said the current residents aren’t suspects.

A law enforcement official said a “person of interest” in Kevin’s disappearance lived in the house at the time. That person has since died.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the search warrant used to inspect the property was sealed.

During the search, cadaver dogs indicated the presence of remains under the concrete in the garage. Police said a preliminary review of the remains showed them to be animal bones, but the San Francisco medical examiner’s office was conducting further tests.

Police didn’t disclose what prompted investigators to seek a search warrant and renew the probe into the case. The FBI and the Alameda County sheriff’s department contributed to the search Tuesday.

Renewed interest in the case, which included a memorable milk carton image of the freckled-faced Kevin, put his mother on an emotional roller coaster, especially when the remains turned out to be animal bones.

“Mostly I’m just numb,” Ann Collins, 72, said. “To see them digging in a building so close to where he disappeared was shocking.”

Collins and her husband divorced, and she moved to the San Francisco suburb of Concord after an intensive search for her son.

“It would be nice to have closure,” she said. “But then a part of me, you know, doesn’t want to find him like that.”

Kevin was last seen waiting for a bus in the neighborhood after basketball practice at St. Agnes School in Haight. Following his disappearance, a local search that included the plastering of his photograph on posters throughout the city blossomed into one of the first child disappearances to garner national attention. His photograph was on the cover of Newsweek in 1984.

Thursday, January 31, 2013 will be a typical day for many, just another end to another month. But for the family of Unique Harris, a missing mother of two boys who will be turning 27, this will be the third birthday without her

Unique Harris was 24-years-old when she was last seen in her Washington D.C. apartment on October 9, 2010 with her children and her young cousin, Talaya Reed. The four of them were eating popcorn and watching a movie and Unique was relaxing in comfortable clothes which included a white t-shirt and grey pants, believed to be sweatpants. When the movie was over Unique put her two boys to bed, then went to bed herself. Her cousin, who also stayed the night, went to bed as well.

The following morning at approximately 9am, her cousin woke up and noticed Unique was missing and called her mother to tell her and ask if she had spoken to her. Her mother said she had not talked to her since the day before.

At first they weren’t too concerned, thinking she may have went to the store but the more time that went by, the more worried her family became.

Unique’s grandfather, Richard Harris, stopped by the apartment later that afternoon where he came across the two children and cousin, but Unique still wasn’t home. He went into her bedroom and found her glasses lying on a pillow. This discovery immediately turned Richard from worried to frantic because Unique cannot see without her glasses and would have never left them behind. Police in Washington DC were then called but despite media attention, searches and interviews, the missing mother’s whereabouts remain a complete mystery.

Family and loved ones miss her dearly, with one family member, a cousin, writing in March, 2012 on Facebook:

“Cuzzin where ever u are We Love You So Much!!! The devil is busy but we will not stop praying …we all need you.”

Photo of Valencia Harris, Unique’s devastated mother who’s been searching for her daughter for over two years. Richard has a tiny mole above the right corner of his mouth. Sometimes Valencia touches it, lightly, the way she used to touch the mole on his mother’s face, before she disappeared. The missing mother’s other child, U’Andre’, shares his mother’s wiggling feet, the ones Valencia used to dress up in white booties. Booties she never threw away and still has today, barely unscuffed, at her Temple Hills home. Her daughter never scuffed them because Valencia never put her down as a baby, because when she was born, Valencia looked at her and thought: “I can’t believe I made this. I made this, this special baby.” — However, for over two years, she’s been mourning the possibility that she may never she her special baby ever again.